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Don't waste your money. For the $80+ i spent on this i would have been better off just upgrading to a new Pre-N wireless router. if you do still want this I'll gladly sell you mine. I bought this from BB and it worked great right out of the box, Not sure what happened after the first day but now i can no longer get it to connect. I'm not getting an internet signal at the remote location.
They even supply the Ethernet cable with the adapter. One is attached to the router, the other two are on computers in different parts of the house. No problems noted so far. We have three of these in use for about a year now in our home. Just plugged them in.
I see they have discontinued this product. I got one email back asking "what are your settings.". I replied, sent a tracer but never heard back. For whatever reason this set-up did not work. Technical issues aside, Netgear has a ways to go to provide basic customer support. Even at 4 am they won't take your call. As others have noted, phone support is non-existent. Email to support was also fruitless.
Sweet.Streamed Mp3s, tested the internet. But, it actuality it requires W98SE or higher. This was definatly the easiest solution to networking into my shop so I could have internet and play Mp3s off my network.I plugged one into my router, and the other into my 150mhz laptop I used in the shed (a glorified Mp3 player at this rate, but still does that and surfs the net well).Turned on the laptop.
Perfect solution. So, I couldn't install the software (I installed in on my XP laptop to test the speed with their tools).Kinda sucks SE is required. Couldn't be happier.The only downfall was that the encryption software (not that I need it) says W98 is required.
I bought this because I have a shed next to my garage that my WiFi doesn't quite reach. Worked great. but, I can live with it now that I have internet and can share MP3s in my shop.
I was on my network at a little over 8Mbps. super fast.
It seems to have gotten a lot of good reviews, so maybe it was just my place that was the problem, but for what it's worth, it wasn't the magic it sounded like it was. It might have worked for non-internet networking, but I just wanted to have net access and that wasn't happening except for a brief period after resetting the power as I mentioned. I tried using it to connect two medium sized rooms that were right next to each other. It only worked reasonably well for a little while after I plugged both of them in (or unplugged them both and re-plugged them in).
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